if your mainly bed bound your condition sounds a lot like my wife. There is surgeries she could theoretically try but it kinda seems like you might be worse off than before so its a big gamble. Basically it sounds like you don’t really want to try until you are literally in a wheel chair.

how are you with standing? I say this because my wifes issue is more about one position over time than any particular one. Anything but laying down is limited in time and even if she mixes it up she will eventually need to lay down. That being said mixing it up is what works the best. If you have a standing desk and a barstool kind of office chair that you can sit at ergonomically at the standing height that is ergonomic. Well then you can switch between standing and sitting pretty easy because the chair is so high. So you don’t have to fall into the chair or rise up as much out of it. I find the height of the chair ends up being about but height so easy to get into. I don’t know if it would be better for you but food for thought.

im a bit instance blind. I just hang out with whoevers posting and junk.

Yeah obviously a disease is caught from somewhere and they thing it has been transmitted human to human but seems to require close contact like family in the same cabin. This is all from the articles. In animals it required fluid contact and given what they see I think the assumption that would be needed I don’t think is a crazy assumption. This means any risk of contagion just requires simple isolation and you don’t have to have 10 foot rules and n95’s and such. Maybe a mask or shield to keep from inhaling cough spittle and gloves along with good hygene. Its doubtful such a thing could get out of control unless it was very mild and lack symptoms for awhile which does not appear to be the case.

I mean no one has time for that. If anything you would go pick up a ged but if you got a higher degree it would not invalidate it so you would not even bother in that case. Honestly im not sure community colleges require high school degrees so you could likely just go work on an associates if you did not have a higher degree but that would theoretically take two years although maybe one if you were intense about it.

Piers anthony stuff is light but its risqueso not exactly like the hobbit but should not stress you out. The more I think about it the more his stuff is a lot like anime with panty glimpses and stuff thrown around. Its far more fanciful as well. Try the first xanth book and see what you think. Word of warning its a trilogy that turned into a trilogy of trilogies and then became the series that never ends. His incarnations of immortality series is a bit more serious without being stressful serious and that starts with on a pale horse. Xanth is about a magical land where everyone gets a magic talent. In some ways its like a fantasy version of my hero academia and the incarnations series is in a modern world where magic is around and used as much as technology and the main thing is around these mystical kind of offices that keep the world in order.

maybe but as I replied to another then its that people hate life because they are on them all the time. Smartphones or some apps are addictive.

unfortunately the video is a very myopic view. Yes are system limits democracy but your are right that every single election counts and its even more reason we have to come out and kick out the extrememely bad forces at work. We all know the nazis were elected.

my wife continually complains that him speaking or even seeing his face makes her want to bark at the screen. Like a dog where every fiber of its being is saying bad person.

still bg3. so close to level 12 to see if my end game builds work out.

gave me a rare chuckle in these grave times.

youd be surprised. most required mail stuff is straight up bullshit type stuff and not really that senstitive. its usually just hoops they through up to slow down and stymie anything your entitled to.

yeah I don’t want the QR to actually pay but more like just a billing destination or payment destination. The way I look at it is they scan it and then it will give my name and address (something they would need to send an invoice so the information is not exactly confidential for a purchase) which they could ask for my id to verify im not like trying to use someone elses. Basically I want a system much closer to the old fashion send you a bill in the mail and you then pay it but with my banks bill pay as the central portal. Many places now don’t want to send phsical statements in the mail but also don’t want to send pdfs of statements by email so being able to get all your bills pdf in one place would at least be not so bad. The idea of logging in every month to every vendors portal is just annoying. I always compare it to companies back in the day rather than sending the statemnent each month would send postcard saying. hey come to the office and pick up a statement.

now starts operation legal loophole!

I don’t use a lot of cash but that has been the case since I have been eligible for credit cards. I pretty much do not like any other kind of payment except check or cash. To much stuff wants to pull money and that I absolutely do not like. Bill me and I will push the money to you. Actually the basic billpay system at my bank is my second favorite way to pay things. Maybe actually first. Detest things like zelle which just feels like a scam to me. I absolutely wish the bank bill pay system was more advanced. Like I could have a qr code and say bill me here and they could have one to say set us up as a place to pay for with this qr code. When they use it they send a bill and I acknowledge them as a vendor and they go into my space. Then I can download the bills or statements from the bilpay in my bank and authorize payment. It basically works kinda like this but only some things integrate with it. In addition for some reason if you integrate something with it some will basically want to take your portal access directly to the vendor away which I don’t get at all. In the end cash for me is a fallback that I don’t want to go away and that im always prepared to use.

outside of this trust cafe has merit. Maybe even a better community really but as nice as it is its still not federated.

im 100% sure because people are doing it no matter what they are otherwise doing it. So its either they are on their phones because they hate life or smartphones or at least certain apps on them are addictive. its plain to see they are addictive although I will grant that life sucks especially now. Still. the phones be an addiction.

I have been unemployed close to two years. I have full autonomy and bills. Im older and going through savings. I have tried to get into a program for more education but was not accepted and a training program would have taken a lot of time away from looking for work and some work I can get (I substitute teach some so maybe im not strictly a neet although I don’t think there will be many oportunities for it over the summer). I was a stem major and worked in tech all my life which allowed for “odd” individuals in the ranks. When I was young kids like me were called introverts and that was that. It makes me wonder. I have been struggling with depression and want to get help but im on the us lowest level medicaly system and its that much harder to navigate and the depression itself makes it hard to even try.

honestly I can see getting this. To me the smartphone already is sucking up all your data and selling it. I can’t see this as any worse. Like any smartphone it remains off most of the time.

this could be great if its undo the cheating, draw and extra card, and take a drink!